GEORGINA CLAPHAM

Georgina Clapham (b.1993) United Kingdom, is a painter and printmaker currently based in Los Angeles. Having graduated with a BA (Hons) at The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, in 2016, she holds an MFA in Fine Art from Otis College of Art and Design, (CA), 2025. Influenced by archetypal figures in history, from fantasy, folklore or legends to celebrity and the lifestyles that have been mythologised by popular culture. Clapham combines the traditional media of oil paint on linen with screen-printmaking, creating her own contemporary mythologies that explore how we experience icons throughout time via different forms of media, from film and TV, books, billboards and the internet. Interested in unpacking the production of desire through advertising and the evolutionary status of fashion items through history, she looks at the way in which certain symbols are kept alive in mass culture through endless reconfigurations and popular narratives. Her paintings aim to reflect the chaos and seduction of contemporary content consumption through social media or virtual aspirational mood boards like Pinterest, with an awareness of the glitch and artifice of identity construction in our current climate. Through collage, drawing, painting and printmaking, her works reflect the commodification of our personal content, translating this into the physical mark by showing the breadth, or limitations, of the human hand. Using text, repetition or colour saturation to mimic the quality of an image as it degrades through multiple manipulations or reappropriations.

Education:

2025 Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, USA - Master of Fine Arts

2016 The Royal Drawing School, London, UK

2016 Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK - BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting and Printmaking

2013 City & Guilds of London Art School, London, UK - Foundation Diploma in Art and Design

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2026 Wanderlust, Fabula Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2025 Across the Pond, Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2018 Mythologies and Metamorphoses, Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2026 MOTHERFUCKER No Placebo x ch.u.rch (Upcoming), Los Angeles, CA, USA

2026 Mohilef Open Studios, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2025 Holiday Market (Online), OCHI, Los Angeles, CA / Sun Valley, ID, USA

2025 L.A.’s Originales: Women Defining Contemporary Art, Superchief Gallery LA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2025 State of Becomings, Munzón Gallery, Long Beach, CA, USA

2025 Whitney Biennial (Crossed Out) Museum Gift Shop, ArtReviewPower100, Free Parking Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2025 Who Let The Dogs In?, Calico Exhibitions, Woodstock, NY, USA

2025 Lobster Club Annual Exhibition, 356 Mission Los Angeles, CA, USA

2023 MFA’s of LA, Good Mother Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2020 LIMBO, Everyday Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

2020 No Time Like The Present, Public Gallery, London, UK

2020 Me, Myself and I, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London, UK

2019 PLOP Residency Exhibition, Plop Residency, London, UK

2017 In The Morning it is Green (Two-person exhibition with Helen Flockhart), Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, UK

2017 Contemporary Perspectives on Printmaking, Mall Galleries, London, UK

2017 AON Community Art Award Exhibition, Leadenhall Building, London, UK

2017 RSA: New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK

Art Fairs:

2025 Perfectly Fair Art Fair, Rusha & Co., Los Angeles, CA, USA

2023 Port Art Fair, Fabula Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia